Aneek's Dotfiles 🧰

This repo holds my dotfiles and other config files for both my primary Windows machine and my WSL 2 setup (running Ubuntu 20.04).

Right now, this repo isn't automated at all - as of writing, I recently set up a new machine, so these are all the settings I found myself needing to customize. The process of setting up the new machine made me realize I needed to start intentionally tracking my config - both to simplify fresh setups, and to make sure when I made config changes to the tracked repo, they were purposeful. Therefore, this repo will remain mostly manual (copy-pasting in updates, cloning & re-cloning, etc) until I feel the need to write or find a scripted alternative.

Repo Structure

The windows directory contains all the files and folders for relevant Windows 10 config. This includes:

• settings.json for Windows Terminal
• vscode for VS Code
• .gitconfig for my global Git config
• init.cmd, which is loaded before Command Prompt sessions to give me certain aliases I prefer within Command Prompt.

  This can be replicated by creating the string value AutoRun in registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, and setting it to the absolute path to the init.cmd file.

• spotlight.ps1, which is a PowerShell script I wrote to pull the recent Windows 10 Spotlight (lock screen) images so I can pick out the ones I like as wallpapers.

  I use this by placing it with my other CLI executables and creating an alias to it in init.cmd as well as a shortcut to it on my desktop as: powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\Program Standalones\spotlight.ps1'

The ubuntu directory contains the same for my WSL 2 config:

• .bashrc and .bash_aliases for my bash setup
• .vim for my Vim config
• .gitconfig for my WSL-global Git config